October 2021

US President Joe Biden said Pope Francis called him a ‘good Catholic’ as they met Friday at the Vatican at the start of a European trip aimed at reasserting US international credentials.

The meeting at the Vatican lasted more than an hour — longer than Biden’s two predecessors were given — and came as Biden arrived in Europe ahead of a weekend G20 summit in Rome and UN climate talks in Glasgow.

Biden, only the second Catholic to hold his office, said Francis had expressed pleasure that “I was a good Catholic” in the talks, which sidestepped the controversial topic …

Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo was on Thursday charged with a misdemeanor sex crime for forcible touching, a court spokesperson said.

The charge is the first to be filed since the once-powerful politician was forced to resign this year following a slew of sexual harassment allegations.

‘A misdemeanor complaint against former governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in Albany City Court,’ said Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the New York state courts, describing it as a ‘sex crime.’

The complaint accuses Cuomo of putting his hand down the victim’s blouse and grabbing her left breast in December 2020.

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National Consultative Front (NCFront) co-chairperson, Prof Pat Utomi has concluded plans to meet Prof Attahiru Jega and Olisa Agbakoba (SAN)-led National Political Coalition on Electoral Reforms initiated on October 1 with a view of launching a new political party.

The NCFront disclosed this on Friday while announcing plans to launch a ‘credible alternative mega ideological party by November’.

A statement by Tanko Yunusa, Head of Public Affairs, which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York declared that the aim is to ‘depose the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’.

He said the consensus among …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that no individual, including the ousted Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, can derail the party’s mission to rescue Nigeria from the shackles of bad governance.

Governor Wike posited that Secondus’ attempt to scuttle the PDP national convention made him an enemy of the party that has resolved to end the poor leadership of the All Progressives Congress(APC)-led federal government.

The governor made this assertion in Port Harcourt while reacting to the Court of Appeal dismissal of Secondus’ application that sought to stop the PDP convention and his …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said that he will leave office when his tenure ends on May 29, 2023.

This is as he warned against campaigns for tenure extension, saying he swore to serve in accordance with the constitution.

The President said this at a meeting in Makkah with a select group of Nigerians resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he just ended a visit.

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This was disclosed in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari Says I Will Leave On 29 May 2023, …